NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the “Company” or “ARI”) (NYSE:ARI) today announced the Company closed a $325 million mezzanine loan for the construction of a condominium development in Midtown Manhattan. At closing, ARI funded $41 million and a fund managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC (“Apollo”) acquired a $50 million participation in the mezzanine loan, which also was funded at closing. Over the next several months, ARI will seek to